snakeskin
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- noun
- /ˈsneɪkˌskɪn/
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muda de serpiente
- And Gillian's inner eye was full of the empty snakeskin, a papery, shadowy form of a snake that she saw floating at the rim of the well into which the muscular snake had vigorously vanished.
- found a snakeskin
- shed snakeskin
Examples
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I never knew wearing snakeskin.
Blog text (25) -
Mercer removed the snakeskin belt his father had made.
Fiction book (1990) -
In a country house, she once found a snakeskin in the insulation, and she wondered what to hope for in the city.
Fiction book (1991) -
When I found a two-foot-long snakeskin, I called out to Jeff: "Hey, come look what I found."
Fiction book (2001) -
Blood and thin strips of brown and green snakeskin explode everywhere.
Fiction book (2000) -
His lips were crinkled and gray like shed snakeskin.
Fiction book (1998) -
Yeah, that's always reassuring, finding a molted snakeskin before I go into the crawl space.
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Deep, like what used to rise up out of the thickets beyond the trash pile where all those mismatched shoes lay, their leather cracking like old snakeskins in the hot sun.
Fiction book (2000) -
His thumb knuckle presses into my navel, and his fingers brush against my snakeskin belt—the one he made for me three years ago.
Fiction book (1994) -
While exploring the forest, I spotted a shed snakeskin coiled up near the roots of a tree.
Synonyms
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The outer layer covering the body of a person or animal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Snakeskin can also mean the thin outer skin a snake leaves behind when it grows, so it literally means 'the outer skin that a snake sheds'. You may find this 'snakeskin' in nature as a thin, dry layer.